oska's comments

On: Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia

[oska]

Gentle suggestion for you to read the guidelines again

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On: Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it

[oska]

It's my opinion that t-shirts with something printed on the front have never been and will never be cool, so I don't struggle with this choice at all

On: Brands got worse on purpose

[oska]

Yeah, it's sad to see classic Australian brands caught up in this debasement process

On: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

[oska]

Pretty decent video released today by Wall Street Millennial that looks at the profitability of SpaceX (as part of looking at 'Terafab') :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJi1oQFQzs

On: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

[oska]

I don't know if Southern Lebanon town names were removed or never there. In either case it seems quite odd that the southern part of Lebanon has been left so void of labelling.

Perhaps the submission title could be changed just to reflect this seemingly odd paucity of town names in S. Lebanon only on Apple Maps?

On: Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked

[oska]

This is such an excellent comment (along with SoftTalker's reply) and made me think. I've long rejected the term "intellectual property", along with the delusional/fraudulent term "artificial intelligence" (as opposed to real things like LLMs and machine learning) and "money laundering" but hadn't previously stopped to think about "identity theft". Now I have.

I believe that it's really important to consider the validity of terms that are heavily adopted and pushed around and whether you should use them yourself or call them out as intellectually vapid/dishonest.

On: Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked

[oska]

> But then your comment history reveals enough about your intent.

This is really poor form, and against the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On: Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked

[oska]

> Financial privacy is a complicated subject, could you perhaps agree that there is a use for transparancy?

No, because I don't believe in income tax or capital gains tax. I do believe in government taxes but they should be made on land holdings (Georgism) and on corporate activities, not on individuals' financial status (their earnings & capital).

[pastage → oska]

The issues are orthogonal, depending on how you define things. I do not trust your system at all, how can you make it observable?

On: Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked

[oska]

> The Government IS the public.

How can you say this (and seem to believe it)?

The Government is answerable to the public and should serve the public. But conflating the government with the public is simply bizarre, to my way of thinking.

Governments should be transparent as much as possible, yes. But that doesn't mean being necessarily transparent with sensitive information that they know about members of the public. Only with your (bizarre to me) conflation of the public with the government would this make any sense.

On: Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

[oska]

> asshattery in your twenties is largely irrelevant to your trustworthiness in your sixties

Do people believe this? I certainly don't. How you behaved in your twenties is a good measure of the sort of person you are and will be for the rest of your life, albeit that you will (hopefully) mature and change some of your opinions and behaviours. So yes, you will have changed but you're also still that person you were in your twenties.